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Post Post #0 (isolation #0) » Sat Oct 08, 2016 9:19 am

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Spoiler: Let’s give this a shot!
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What is this? Stay tuned to find out! (It begins…)
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Post Post #1 (isolation #1) » Sat Oct 08, 2016 9:30 am

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Post Post #3 (isolation #2) » Sat Oct 08, 2016 12:33 pm

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Post Post #12 (isolation #3) » Fri Oct 14, 2016 1:15 am

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In post 9, Majiffy wrote:Whaaaaaaat Mastina's name got changed :o
Yup, from mastina to...mastina! :P
In post 11, Glork wrote:Can I just call you Tina for short?
I actually wouldn't be opposed to that. It would kinda be a logical progression, heh.
In post 7, Firebringer wrote:i think you gotta work on your drawing a bit more.
That's a given. (Incidentally, I would link to the original sketch if I could, but embarrassingly enough, I, uh...kinda...lost the link. :oops: Best I can give you is this.) I hated the cover. Still do, to be honest. It's a sloppy mess. But, I had to make it, and at
some
point, I had to call it satisfactory even if I wasn't at all pleased with the result. What was I going to do? I'm an amateur artist. I suck. I have very little talent in bringing my visions to life properly. So dabbling on an attempt at perfection was bound to be an exercise in futility; I had to accept I sucked at some point and this is where I made that call.
In post 8, Brandi wrote:Mastina I wish you luck on this project!
Thank you!
Quick question though, are you using a mouse or a tablet for these?
This one was made with a combination of a laptop's mousepad (which is quite literally THE worst possible method of drawing lines for art) and my tablet (which is honestly...well, not very useful. Not enough pressure, and it will not draw a line; too much pressure, and it activates the
eraser
instead of the line, and I have shaky hands which make stabilizing the pen nigh-impossible).

I also pretty much never put my line correction above 4 or 5.

I was...rather quick to remedy this. Now, I'm using a wireless mouse on a mousepad, with the line correction tool set to a default of 10. (Out of 15. I use FireAlpaca.)

This was also like my third image ever made in FireAlpaca, mind you, so I was still learning the ropes of the program so to speak. Later pages get notably better, especially once I learned to standardize my process. (As in, I quite literally wrote down all the colors I use, at what transparency, with what layers they're on, which...for this page, I was not doing.) The improvement will be really notable around page two or three or so. (And coincidentally, that's when the story takes off, too!)

I am going to bookmark that link, though!

Also, about the hood: I got really lazy with it in later pages, and I'll be honest: it's a pain in the ass for me to draw. She
is
still technically wearing a hoodie, though.
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Post Post #14 (isolation #4) » Fri Oct 14, 2016 10:26 am

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It's pretty hard to unironically offend me.
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Post Post #17 (isolation #5) » Sat Oct 15, 2016 12:44 pm

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In post 16, Accountant wrote:Red Hood Rider's bow is transparent(doesn't appear in shadow) and appears to be made of solidified light/electricity. That's interesting.
Perceptive!
The bow's pure light. (You'll see some artistic inconsistency on one or two later pages, but that was art error on my end. Just a warning in advance.)

You'll get the in-universe explanation eventually (well, some of it anyway--I'm pretty sure you don't want me to dump on you a 15-page explanation about every nuance of a rider), but basically, she's a "Rider". In this setting, there are eight prime elements: fire/ice/water/energy/earth/air/light/darkness. Every rider is inherently of the Light element, so their weapons/attacks are of the light element. (And also, made of magic, natch.)
In post 15, Cheery Dog wrote:That's not a story update :(
The plan is once a week (though I'll be missing the first week of November), so I'm updating in...thirty seconds from this post or so!
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Post Post #18 (isolation #6) » Sat Oct 15, 2016 12:46 pm

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Spoiler: Hi!
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A bit of a literal Crash(Into)Hello.
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Post Post #19 (isolation #7) » Sat Oct 22, 2016 2:35 pm

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Spoiler: Getting hit is really a buzzkill.
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This page is a true
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Post Post #21 (isolation #8) » Sat Oct 22, 2016 6:24 pm

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In post 20, Accountant wrote:Why is she moving through a pink void?
It's a void because I didn't draw a background for many pragmatic reasons. Among them, I suck at figuring out interior design (it's...vaguely some sort of house, that's about all I actually
know
about it, so your guess is literally just as good as mine), backgrounds take extra time which slows down my creation process, and that I am being a cheapskate who only draws the necessary details, relying on some minimalism. It's an artistic shortcut, sure, but many professional artists (including many mangaka, which are the main stylistic influences on Red Hood Rider) use it.

As for why pink instead of the usual white: every episode will have a 'focus character'. Each focus character has a bright color. Ruby is this episode's central character, her color is a whitened red (i.e., pink), and thus, her color is the background color. Next episode will feature a greenish hue when it eventually premiers.
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Post Post #23 (isolation #9) » Mon Oct 24, 2016 2:46 pm

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In post 22, Brandi wrote:lol, cute personality so far, I like it! Keep it up <3
You have no clue how much I needed to hear this. Thank you. <3
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Post Post #28 (isolation #10) » Wed Oct 26, 2016 12:35 am

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In post 24, Brandi wrote:Someday I'll try again.
You'd be good at it! Your art is leagues above my own in quality. And I'm not saying I suck. (I mean, I'm not great, but I'm at least okay.) You're just in a league of your own in comparison to me.
In post 25, Firebringer wrote:These are huge improvements in art style compared to first image you provided.
As a unlicensed unqualified critique. I say keep it up.
The improvements are partially the real-life me getting better at drawing between the gaps for the sketches, and partially me becoming more competent at actually using the program I am. I think that the next page I have is probably going to be the "peak": it'll be even better artistically than this one was, and with maybe one or two exceptions down the line, all the pages after it are going to be overall inferior.

Then again, I haven't actually finished the digital drawings
for
them, so who knows? I might actually not disappoint you.
But, this is me giving you a fair warning that, most likely, you will in fact be facing disappointment: initially impressed with what I provide next, and then holding me to that standard, finding what follows fairly lackluster.

All the same: thank you! I do appreciate the support and while I'm warning you I don't get much better, I do at least HOPE that I can continue to give something at least adequate.
In post 27, Accountant wrote:So she's breaking into a booby-trapped house?
No, it's a normal house. She just went for a dynamic entry and discovered that some superhero tropes...encounter issues when tried.

The source of the electrocution will be shown in a couple of pages--it's the reason she came in through the window in the first place. (Unfortunately, it'll be a while before you see that page. I'm thinking of taking two weeks off of comic-making and attempting to write the entirety of the novel version of Gistou in that time period, for NaNoWriMo.)
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Post Post #29 (isolation #11) » Sat Oct 29, 2016 8:49 pm

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Spoiler: That’s great! …What KIND?
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Yes, she’s calling out Tropes by name. It’s
that
kind of series. The answer to the spoiler title will become clear as the series progresses, but obviously at least partially the Warrior type given her transforming bow.


...On the artistic side of things: this is as good as I'm getting, realistically speaking. I honestly think that this could potentially be the magnum opus of my work; everything following it...just isn't as good, in my eyes.

That being said:
Remember how I said before that there would be some artistic inconsistencies? Well here ya go. Her bow handle has a shadow. It should not; that's an error. Similarly, the bow handle is opaque when it should be partially transparent; that is also an error.

This is a bit of a nitpick, but the shadow has a white outline, thanks to wrong order of operations (I transformed THEN filled, where I should've filled THEN transformed).
I have a similar misapplication in the handling of the sketch layers, too. (Thus why elements of the black and white version are so strong.) Plus, this is detail-work, but basically: this is one of the only images I anticipate ever drawing of a hand so close...and I didn't include fingernails.

And while not an error per se, there's a difference in the bow between this page and the cover page. Speaking of the bow, as a probable (but not necessarily) error, the arrow appears to pass right through bow handle. And that's just the glaring errors which stuck out to me. I'm usually fairly good at self-critiquing my own work, but even I have blindspots; you as a viewer will probably notice plenty more! (I'm always open to critique, by the way. Some areas I know I need improvement in, but if you critique an area I wasn't aware I needed improvement in, you'd actually be helping me out!)
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Post Post #30 (isolation #12) » Sat Nov 05, 2016 10:52 am

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Yes I am quite aware of the atrocious anatomy (if you can even call it that)/perspective, I wasn't exactly putting that much effort into this, if I was then I would've been able to make a page. :P

Butyeah, this was thanks to an incredibly stressful week and a bad mental spot. It's turned into a bit of a longer break thanks to NaNoWriMo, but I'm not stopping indefinitely.
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Post Post #32 (isolation #13) » Wed Nov 23, 2016 9:22 pm

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It is! I put it on hold for NaNoWriMo, but that's ending soon, so expect me back!
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Post Post #34 (isolation #14) » Wed Nov 23, 2016 10:29 pm

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In post 33, zakk wrote:why are the legs all wobbly is she scared or just a wobbly alien
Lack of program experience, limited to the first page. After gaining experience and switching to a wireless mouse rather than the laptop's built-in mousepad, I fixed that.
why is the red hood riders hood black
Funny story that.
The inside of the hood was supposed to be one color, and the outside another. I forget which was which. One was red, the other was black.
At some point, the outside became black so the inside was supposed to be red.

...But then when it came time to actually draw the inside, that...uh, didn't happen.
So it was accidental art deviation on my end.
what is her name other than red hood rider
Ruby Scarlet Ventrella is her full name.
if nothing then why is she called red hood rider
The name Red Hood Rider is a triple-pun: Robin
Hood
, little
Red Riding Hood
, and Kamen
Riders
, essentially.

As for what riders are: riders are a cousin to magical girls. The full explanation of what makes a rider a rider is a 13-page document, so you
probably
don't wanna hear me talk about it
that
much. To keep the long story short, though: a rider is essentially a being fighting for the forces of good. They are innately imbued with the element light. (The Rubyverse works on an eight-element system: fire, ice, water, energy, air, earth, light, and darkness.) They can be of either gender and any age, but teenaged girls are the most common. Each uses a construct of some kind, in Ruby's case a bow, to fight. A fundamental rule of being a rider is that they are physically incapable of killing their opponents.

The name rider comes from connotations of them being holy beacons of justice, essentially. And they do this largely by instinct, following the path they are guided to. In short, they represent the verb ride: "sit on and control the movement of", or "be carried or supported by (something with a great deal of momentum)" with a shade of "be full of or dominated by". They both direct others (the first), and are being directed themselves (the second). A true rider cannot be corrupted, because they are full of and absolutely dominated by the principles of being good. Thus, rider.

And I know that's sappy, but it's at least what the term means in theory. In reality, things are...a bit looser. Ruby is a fine example of a rider who does not exemplify a cliched do-gooder personality. They're still actual human beings. They can be wrong. They can be manipulated to some extent. But they're USUALLY in the right.

You can also see connotations from rider: "a small weight positioned on the beam of a balance for fine adjustment". In
theory
, this is what riders are meant to do for society: balance it, by making small positive changes for the better, i.e., taking crooks off the streets. More in the ancient term: "‘mounted warrior, knight’", while she may lack a mount, riders are considered to essentially be the chivalrous portrayal of an ideal knight: a warrior of justice who upholds virtues and fights for the betterment of humanity as a whole, with honor.

And just like real-life knights, real-life riders...tend to fall short of that idealism. You probably won't see that immediately, but as the story progresses, you'll see more and more of their flaws.
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Post Post #37 (isolation #15) » Fri Dec 02, 2016 12:02 pm

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Sure it'd be okay, but that doesn't mean I want to. :P

I'm working on the next page basically now, as I multitask.
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Post Post #38 (isolation #16) » Mon Dec 05, 2016 5:45 pm

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Spoiler: You can tell he’s unimportant because he doesn’t have a name!
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